Ever since neutron stars were discovered, researchers have been using their unusual properties to probe our universe. The superdense remnants of stellar explosions, neutron stars pack a mass greater ...

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The telescope will hunt for bursts of X-rays from mysterious and fascinating cosmic objects like neutron stars and black holes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

An international group of researchers performed pendellösung interferometry on silicon using a neutron beam, providing both the highest precision measurements with this technique to date, and a ...

Physicists have created a framework for better understanding the super-dense matter inside neutron stars by combining observations from gravitational-wave detectors and conventional telescopes with ...

Through pioneering contributions that have expanded the capabilities of a class of specialized instruments that use neutrons to probe materials, Charles Majkrzak has given researchers around the world ...

China launched its Einstein Probe on Tuesday (Jan. 9), kicking off its mission to observe the X-ray sky. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) spacecraft will hunt for high-energy light from some of ...